Seen & Heard: No escape from the sidewalk sheds
Plus a free dance class for the littlest ones among us; marking 30 years since the first WTC bombing; coming this summer to City Hall Park. / 10 comments
Bed Bath & Beyond will close in the coming weeks
The store is on a list with a couple hundred others across the country as the company tries to avoid bankruptcy. / 16 comments
In the News: Tech “It” couple buys the Staple Street bridge
The co-founders of Slack and Away add the townhouse that is 9 Jay, the skybridge and the connecting apartment at 67 Hudson to their real estate collection.
Low-rise corner of Canal and Broadway will be preserved and developed
The site on the northeast corner will become a 13-story residential building with 100 units, 25 percent of them designated as affordable. / 5 comments
Newsletter: February 9
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The sturgeon are coming
The Hudson River Park Trust has broken ground on the new science playground at Pier 26. An estuarium that will study and teach about the river is next. / 4 comments
Join Vivvi for infant playgroups!
Vivvi is hosting a free playgroup for children 3-12 months at their Tribeca campus on February 11th and 25th. Join Vivvi’s educators for fun activities and independent exploration. / Sponsored
A photographer captures the last signs of life on West Broadway and Warren
In 2017, when it was announced that the block would be razed, Robert Ripps set out to document the buildings, businesses and people of one piece of Tribeca. / 6 comments
Seen & Heard: Moving the Eyes
Plus Revolution Eyes has a new home; Orson Welles at BPCA film series; an update on The Battery over coffee. / 2 comments
Rockefeller reconstruction meetings start this week
The Battery Park City Authority will host a series of four workshops to hash out the latest plans to protect their parks and buildings from floods. / 5 comments
Community Board 1 agendas for February
Discussions on the rebuilding of Rockefeller Park, a flood wall for the Westside, and more. / 1 comment
65 West Broadway site is for sale
The construction site has been stalled out at least since 2019, but it ready to go according to the listing. / 13 comments
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Bravo!! — Queens Girl / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Beautiful story and interview. Thank you so much for posting. It’s a privilege Learning about our artistic neighbors. Looking forward... — DSSA / Catching up with Adger Cowans on his 90th birthday
Relative to other parts of the city FiDi has comparatively little green space, let alone trees on the streets. Further,... — Heide Fasnacht / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
A lot of NIMBYism in these comments. Financial district is basically the birthplace of the skyscraper, has always been crowded,... — Cd / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
One solution to the lack of common areas and too much traffic: close streets to cars/trucks permanently, and convert them... — Ben / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Typo: before 2010 (not 2020) — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold
Before 2020, the area was still mostly office (personally I would not describe as moribund) and actually less traffic. There... — stm / City moving forward with development of 100 Gold